The population living in the industrial zone was evacuated as a guarantee of well-being in the face of the fire being fought at the Supertanker Base in this city.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel visited this Saturday the Faustino Pérez Hospital in Matanzas, where he took an interest in the state of health and care provided to the people affected by the major fire that occurred in the industrial zone of that city.

Cuba prioritizes the development of health tourism based on high quality of life and well being.

Cuban firefighters are trying to control a large fire occurred in a fuel tank at an oil supertankers depot in Western Matanzas province.

Cuban vice president Salvador Valdes Mesa received at the Palace of the Revolution the foreign minister of Serbia, Nikola Selaković, who is on an official visit to Cuba.

The second round of talks on migration issues between Cuba and Chile will be held today in virtual format, Cuban foreign ministry announced.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), toured on Thursday Arroyo Naranjo municipality, in Havana, to exchange with the population and delegates and verify on the scene the progress of the community transformation, the ANPP reported on its website.

On April 6, 1960 Lester D. Mallory (1904-1994), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum declassified in 1991, acknowledged that most Cubans support Fidel and advised that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba (…) a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of Government."

Visiting Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic described his visit to the Havana-based Fidel Castro Center as an emotional encounter with history and with the ideas of the historic leader of the Cuba Revolution.

Cuba's western provinces will start in September a partial transition to digital terrestrial television, according to Minister of Communications Mayra Arevich, who said that the process involves terminating the analog signals of the country’s two learning channels.

The International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power reiterates its firm support for the "One China" principle and condemns the interference in the internal affairs of the People's Republic of China and the provocative actions of the U.S. Government that threaten its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Under the festival Isla Joven (Youth Island Festival), the locals are celebrating 44 years since the decision of the National Assembly of People's Power to name the then Isle of Pines as Isle of Youth was made public.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTTS by its Spanish acronym) presented today a series of measures to be adopted in the state sector of the economy, with a view to reducing electricity consumption, taking into account the energy situation the country is going through.

The 16th Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara) is being held from today until August 6 with a diverse multicultural program, with emphasis on audiovisuals.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez sent a letter of condolences to the people and government of Iran after heavy rains claimed human lives and inflicted property damage over the past few days.